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World Roundup: Leavitt Steps Down, Meta Faces Tobacco Moment

World Roundup: Leavitt Steps Down, Meta Faces Tobacco Moment
Globe at a glance: From Karoline Leavitt stepping down to Meta's ‘tobacco moment’ · firstpost.com

Sometimes one newspaper page has many different stories from all over the world.

One story says the person who talks to reporters for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, is leaving her job at the end of August to spend more time with her family.

In Texas, two soldiers died when their Army helicopter crashed.

In Venezuela, leaders from different sides met and agreed to make the courts fairer and to try to get money from the Bank of England to help after an earthquake.

A court case in California says Meta, the company that makes Facebook and Instagram, made those apps too fun and addictive for kids; four states want as much as $1.4 trillion in penalties.

In Colombia, a big earthquake killed 265 people and almost 500 are still missing.

In Europe, millions of people watched a rare total solar eclipse.

A jury in Chicago decided Boeing must pay $29 million to the family of a man who died in a plane crash.

So this page is full of big news from around the world.

Key facts

Press secretary
Karoline Leavitt to step down end of August
Apache crash
Two US Army soldiers killed near Fort Hood, Texas
Venezuela talks
First post-Maduro talks; judicial reform agreed
Meta penalties sought
Up to $1.4 trillion by four states
Colombia quake toll
265 dead; nearly 500 missing
Boeing verdict
$29 million awarded to Michael Ryan's family
Total solar eclipse
August 12; totality in Spain, Portugal and Iceland

Quotes

US President Donald Trump

U.S. President

“The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT! Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, 'A WALL OF STEEL,' and there is nothing Iran can do about it.”
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